Title Reconstructing women's wartime lives : discourse and subjectivity in oral histories of the Second World War / Penny Summerfield

Published Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York, NY : Distributed in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 1998

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Description xiii, 338 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm Contents Ch. 1. Gender, memory and the Second World War -- Ch. 2. Daughters reconstruct their parents: mothers, fathers and wartime mobilisation -- Ch. 3. 'Heroes' and 'stoics': war work and feminine identity -- Ch. 4. Wartime masculinities and gender relations -- Ch. 5. Feminine bonding and the maintenance of difference -- Ch. 6. Demobilisation and discourses of women's work -- Ch. 7. The Second World War and narratives of personal change -- App. 1. Announcements of the project in women's magazines -- App. 2. Brief biographical details of the women interviewed Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [313]-325) and index Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Great Britain. Women -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century. World War, 1939-1945 -- War work -- Great Britain. World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- Great Britain. Women -- Employment -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century. Oral history. LC no. 98222088 ISBN 071904460X (hbk.) 0719044618 (paperback)

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